If you glossed over the story about Twitter leading a $100 million funding round into Indian social platform ShareChat, you should know upfront that ShareChat was RIFE with misinformation, hate speech, and violent propaganda. Your business pubs should really be telling you that. https://t.co/ix7RNgoooZ

Quite interesting: Twitter leading a $100MM investment round for India based ShareChat which focuses on public conversations in multiple Indian languages (India has dozens of languages with >10 million native speakers); currently at around 50MM users.. https://t.co/KHAFPvUSGu

“The mentality recalls that seen in the sometimes violent, largely online group of people in the US who identify as ‘incels’: They can’t get women in India, so why not lay claim to light-skinned women, plus land and religious superiority in the bargain?” https://t.co/SLk2eMjmXX

MIT Tech Review reports TikTok is being used to push nationalist agendas in India, with Hindu nationalists creating videos declaring they plan to travel to Kashmir, get married, and make the majority-Muslim region Hindu. https://t.co/QW3zqhjzVi